The Mattress of Existential Despair

After spending a delightful Christmas with family, I set off for London, where the cars are FAST and the people are RUDE and the lights are ...

Interesting Things by Real People

In the past week, I've written two sets of study notes and first drafts of two assignments (and it only took five days of chaining mysel...

Capslock and Tinsel

Christmas feels Christmassier when it's winter. Maybe it's because all my previous Christmases this side of the equator have been wh...

Yes, We Know it's Christmas

A song which I've only recently discovered, but which has fast become my least favourite Christmas song of all time, is Band Aid 's ...

Some Sort of Dreadful Pun

Today, my dreadlings are a year old. Happy birthday, little guys! No actual dreads were set on fire in the making of this birthday candle. ...

For Whom the Bells Toll

It's starting. At first, it was just peripheral. It was only people who were older than me. Then it was people I used to go on camp with...